 | 1827 - 698 pages
...appearance of political disaffection. " Conscience," to quote once more the words of Lord Mansfield, " is not controllable by human laws, nor amenable to...to force conscience, will never produce conviction; they are only calculated to make hypocrites or martyrs." If doubts have existed as to the expediency... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...punishments ought to be inflicted for mere opinions with respect to particular modes of worship. Persecution for a sincere though erroneous conscience, is not...to be deduced from reason or the fitness of things. It can only stand upon positive law. It has been said, that " the Toleration act only amounts to an... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...punishments ought to be inflicted for mere opinions with respect to particular modes of worship. Persecution for a sincere though erroneous conscience, is not...to be deduced from reason or the fitness of things. It can only stand upon positive law. It has been said, that " the Toleration act only amounts to an... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...election, nor "ever in his^whole life, and that he cannot in conscience do it. Conscience, my lords, is not controllable by human laws, nor amenable to...tribunals ; persecution or attempts to force conscience wilt never produce conviction, and are only calculated to make hypocrites or martyrs. Saxon times down... | |
 | Joseph Lomas Towers - Bible - 1808 - 346 pages
...performed upon such principles as these ; for religion must be built upon our regard to God35.* That ' conscience is not controllable by human laws, nor amenable to human tribunals,' was the declaration of the late lord Mansfield36 ; ' an incomparztble maxim,' says Dn 34 Ess: on Toleration^... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 726 pages
...punishments ought to be inflicted for mere opinions with respect to particular modes ot worship. Persecution for a sincere, though erroneous, conscience, is not...to be deduced from reason or the fitness of things ; it can only stand upon positive law. It hath been said [by Mr. Baron Perrott,] that ' the Toleration... | |
 | William Sampson - Catholics - 1813 - 278 pages
...delicate subject, better than in the language of that enlightened judge whose opinion I before quoted.* " Conscience is not controllable by human laws, nor " amenable to human tribunals. Persecution or at" tempts to force conscience, will never produce convic" tion, and are only calculated to make hypocrites,... | |
 | James George Barlace - England - 1819 - 408 pages
...of the times. " Conscience," as the enlightened Lord Mansfield once observed, " is not controulable by human laws, nor amenable to human tribunals." Persecution...are only calculated to make hypocrites or martyrs. What bloodshed and confusion have been occasioned, from the reign of Henry the Fourth, when the first... | |
 | 1822 - 746 pages
...on the heart of every British youth. — " Conscience," said Lord Mansfield, " is not controulablc by human laws, nor amenable to human tribunals. Persecution,...are only calculated to make hypocrites or martyrs." — " Than persecution, there is nothing certainly more unreasonable, more inconsistent with the rights... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...statesman, on the heart of every British youth. " Conscience," said Lord Mansfield, " is not controlable by human laws, nor amenable to human tribunals. Persecution,...are only calculated to make hypocrites or martyrs." — "Than persecution, there is nothing certainly more unreasonable, more inconsistent with the rights... | |
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But it cannot be shown from the principles of natural or revealed religion that, independent of positive law, temporal punishments ought to be inflicted for mere opinions with respect to particular modes of worship. Persecution for a sincere, though erroneous,... 
